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BlackBerry Outage Spreads To North America

Posted by Unknown on from the on-the-third-day-god-created-sigsegv dept.

iONiUM writes "With increasing pressure on RIM to catch up to the new phones, and the upcoming release of the iPhone 4S, could this three day outage of BlackBerry's service be a nail in the coffin? From the article 'The service disruptions are the worst since an outage swept north America two years ago, and come as Apple prepares to put on sale its already sold-out iPhone 4S on Friday.'" This is the same outage as was reported Monday. RIM has released a few details on what's happened: a failed software upgrade brought the system down, and, after repairing the first issue, the backlog of traffic overwhelmed their network infrastructure taking things down a second time.

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  1. Re:iPhone reception issues have been addressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your meaty hand does a great job of reducing signal strength when you wrap it around any phone tightly.

    You know, most sane people wouldn't count "you're holding it wrong" as "addressing the issue." I guess it's comforting to know that the reality distortion field persists even after death.

    The annoying thing though, is that you cannot buy an unlocked iPhone to use with anything but a GSM carrier.

    Wait, is this SuperKendall admitting there's a flaw with his hallowed Apple products? Oh, wait, of course not. He's pushing the blame for that onto the mobile carriers. After all, Apple can do no wrong.

    Wait, what does the iPhone have to do with an RIM outage in the first place? Oh, right, nothing, other than as an excuse for Apple fans to act all smug and superior. But don't worry, no one is going to get an iPhone 4S to replace their Blackberry. They're all sold out to Apple fanboys, after all.

    It's a good time to be an Android smartphone maker, though, since there are plenty of those out there, and almost all of them are superior to the 4S in any case. Especially if you require features like "being able to install apps outside the official app store," "user replaceable batteries," and "user replaceable storage." Honestly, I suppose I could make do without an SD micro slot. The first two? Not a chance.

    (As an aside, anyone else find it hilarious that Apple is so heavily advertising the camera in the 4S without those last two? Especially the 1080p video feature? I wonder how many minutes it can record before running out of space and battery. Can't be too much. But that has nothing to do with this story. I'm sure there will be plenty of iPhone 4S Slashvertisements to ask that in later.)